Telephone attachment.



` y PATENT JJISILVBRMAN. A TELEPHONEATTACHMENT. APPLIQATvIoN FILED MN. 25. 1905.5l l

En MAR. 20.1906. y

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JosEPH SILVERMAN, oF sANrRANoisco, cALrFoRNiA. TELEPHQNE .diil-'Aczi-ilviENT.` i I 4 f Be it known that I, JosErH-Si'LvERMAN, al citizen of the United States, residing in the' city and county of San Francisco and Stateof California, have invented new and useful Improvements 'in Telephone Attachments, of

which the following is a specification.v

=My invention relates to a telephone attach-l vment# and especially toa device for holding io:

the receiver in suitable relation to the mouth/-v piece.' Its object is toy provide a device api plicablev foreither wall-tele hones or for' desk and hand telephones whic shall' be'fsimple,

"practical, nott'oo expensive, and which perm-1t of a quickand satisfactory adjustment of the receiver-holder to either ls ide ofl @the mouthpiece and allowthel operator to 'bothhands will be leftnfrefe.

hear througheither ear, and by which device The invention consists 'of theparts andl the -v construction and combination otparts,'a's

hereinafter more fully described and claimed,

' having reference to the accompanying draw--` Figure 1 is aI side elevation of myinvention, showing its application to a hand-telephone stand, the receiver-holder being omit-k ted. t Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same.

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t cient size and Weight to hold thevarious parts of the device without tipping over, bi'it'is4 3 is a lan of the same. Fig. 4is a perspective o the receiver-holder. Fig. 5 is av invention to an ordinary wall-telephone.v .l 1 A represents a base orstand frovided with suitable means, as-the screw-ci) ceiveand hold a desk-or ,hand telephone` S'of The base is vof sufliy .preferably capable of easily being moved by and to any portion of adesk ortable. EX- tending upward *from this base is a rod or standard 4, .carrying the adjustable sliding arm 5, wliichis arranged'el'ative to the tele# phone-hook 6, by which the circuit isfusually made and.brok'en. The arm 5 supportsa l vertically-sliding slotted member 7, which rests on a cam-finger 8. The telephone-hook 6 is en aged b the art 7, and a s rin 9,- connecltged Withythe hdok, normally hbldsgthe hook down to disrupt the circuit. Pressing down on the cam-Jnger lifts tlie`hookrest 7 and the hook closes the circuit and corricts member 7l ri es on a iiat part of the ececntric surface of the cam and abuts.v against a stop- Speeficaton of Letters Patent. -iippiiemon mea January 25,1905. saai Naziaeaa amp 2, to re- 'i l`410, and'tlie'hook will'stay up until thecamiingerfis tripped, when thespring'` 9 will draw thefhook down again. 5 1

The holder for the telephonehreceiver is ing carriage 12 in such ashion as to be the' telephone.

is limited by the stops 153. The carrier 11 is "represented by alengthwise and sidewise. ad

yjustable arm orcarrier 11'-, ivotedron a slid-l made in three parts, the central .part being"l angular and having oneend extendible by means` of the set-screw 14 yand guide-pin '14 to lengthen :or shorten the carrier, the other end similarly eXtendible by meansfof the 'screw'. 15 and guide-pin ljto lengthen -or shorten the radiusof the arc of movement of the carrierl about lits horizontal pivot 16.'.

vhe outer end of `the arm 1'1 carries a spring clasp vor holder 17, adapted to hold the telehone-receiver in horizontal position. This older is swiveledon a collar 18and thelatter4 is turnable about the rounded end 'of the v arm and adaptedl to'be clamped-theretoby 'the 'set-screw 19. The pivot 16 is so positioned relative to the telephone on the stand that the arm 11 will have an `equal sweep .from side to side of the mouthpiece. this reason the carriage 12 projects out from For the' rod 4' to bring vthe pivot 16 into approxi mately "a L'vertical line with the ceri/ter of the- When. the operator desires to hear with the left ear, as is usual, the arm is thrown to the left of the mouth iece and the holder 17 vand collar 18 yadjuste to maintain the receiver in the of t e operator. In casehe ,wishes to hear with his right ear the receiver is detached temporarily from the holder, the arm turned over on the pivot 16 to the right of the mouthpiece, and the lholder and collar yadjusted so that when the receiver is laced inthe holder the receiver'will be proper y supported on top -of the arm and relative to the mouthpiece.

position best suited to the needs or fancy IOO ' By a slight change in: construction -the same invention is phones.

As sh'own in Figv', the rod 4 is secured in vertical .position to the wall adjacent to the. telephone and in such fashion as toA receive the hook 6 into the slotted reciprocating member 7..' l The arm 11a is pivoted on the sliding carriage 12', so as to swing frornlvside applicable.L to' wallteleto side of the mouthpiece; but in this caste the IOS ivo't 16 is arranged vertically instead of orizontally, as it Was in Figs. 1 to 4. The

other. arts of the attachment are substantially ike those described in connection With Fig. 1 and need not be again recited.

It is possible that various modifications in my invention, may be made Without departing from the principle thereof, andl I do not Wish to be understood as limiting myself to the specific construction as herein shown and' described.

' Having thus described my invention, What I claim, and desire .to secure by Letters Patent@ isn 1. The combination'with the receiver and mouthpiece of a telephone, of a holding device for the receiver said device comprising a stand having a vertical standard, a carriage supported on the standard and having a portion extending from one side, an-arm lying in aplane at one sideof the standard and having its inner end bent at right' angles and pivotally secured to the extended portion of the carriage, and a sWiveled clasp on the outer end of the arm adapted to support the telephone-receiver.

2. The combination With the receiver and .the carriage and said other portion of said arm being formed of sections slidable -one relative to the other, and a means on the outer end of the arm for supporting the telephone-receiver, said sto s limiting the movement of the arm in eit er direction beyond the horizontal.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH SILVERMAN.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, JEssIE C. BRoDIE. 

